Tom, Joe,
> Our usual practice with stuff of uncertain usefulness has been to
> stick
> it in contrib for awhile and see if anyone uses it. If there's
> sufficient interest, we'll promote it to mainstream in a future
> release.
Makes sense to me. Go, Joe!
Since I can't help with the porting of metaphone or levenstein (but will
benefit immensely), I pledge to write a name-alike data checking
PL/pgSQL function which I will post to Roberto's library for public
consumption.
-Josh
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